Tesla In Autopilot Mode Sped Up

Just in from the U.S. in a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday (yesterday) said that a Tesla Model X traveling on Autopilot increased the vehicle’s speed before it crashed into a highway barrier and killed its driver.

The report of the March 23 crash that killed 38-year-old Walter Huang details the minutes and seconds before impact, and echo other accounts of Tesla’s Autopilot self-driving software failing to avoid or brake for objects.

Investigators said that Huang was traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, California, near State Highway 85 when the Model X he was driving veered into a painted highway separator and struck a damaged barrier.